Brechites Guettard 1770 (watering pot shell)

Bivalvia - Pandorida - Penicillidae

Parent taxon: Penicillidae according to B. Morton 2007

See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Lamprell and Healy 1998 and Vokes 1980

Sister taxa: Foegia, Humphreyia, Kendrickiana, Nipponoclava, Penicillus, Pseudobrechites, Warnea

Subtaxa: Brechites (Brechites)

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Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (2 collections), Eritrea (1), Taiwan (1), Yemen (1)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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